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“a desire to express that awe”
Of his recent post Notes to Myself #3 Jerry wrote, “Read “poem,” think “nembutsu”. This came to mind last night when I read the following passage in W. H. Auden’s The Dyer’s Hand: “The impulse to create a work of art is felt when, in certain persons, the passive awe provoked by sacred beings or events [...]
When we press down one part of the Universe …
This quotation, which I came across in my creative writing class, made me recall Dōgen’s way of writing and teaching (my emphasis added): “Every set of possibilites we open closes another set. The same is true in reverse. Every set of possibilities we close opens another set. This is another way of saying that every time [...]
Jottings: ‘The abstract is not life’
I came across an interesting old book called The other side of silence in the university library this week. A lot of it was over my head but the basic subject was the confrontation between self-expression and the limitations of language; taking in the lives and work of figures such as Coleridge, Rimbaud, St John of [...]
Being Contemporary
Most of what calls itself contemporary is built, whether it knows it or not, out of a desire to be liked. It is created in imitation of what already exists and is already admired. There is, in other words, nothing new about it. To be contemporary is to rise through the stack of the past, like the [...]
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